Hacking group Anonymous has launched a series of cyber attacks against websites in Israel.

Data bombardments briefly knocked some sites offline and led to others being defaced with pro-Palestinian messages.

The OpIsrael campaign was launched by the hacking collective in retaliation for attacks on Gaza.

The cyber attacks come as the Israeli army updates its web campaign adding "achievements" and "badges" for regular visitors.
Propaganda war

Anonymous said it had launched the OpIsrael campaign following threats by the Israeli government to cut all Gaza's telecommunication links. This, said
the group in a statement posted to the AnonRelations website, "crossed a line in the sand".

"We are ANONYMOUS and NO ONE shuts down the Internet on our watch," it said.

The group warned the Israeli government not to cut off telecom and web links and urged it to end military operations in Gaza. If the attacks did not
end, Israel would feel the group's "full and unbridled wrath".

Hours after the statement was launched, Anonymous posted a list of 87 sites it claimed had been defaced or attacked as part of OpIsrael. Many of the
sites had their homepages replaced with messages in support of Hamas and the Palestinians.

Anonymous also produced a package of information for people in Gaza detailing alternative ways for them to communicate if net and other
telecommunication links were cut.

When corrupt governments around the world have tried to censor the internet anonymous have always been the first people to support the people and help
them get the internet back up. When Mubarak took down the internet in Egypt they hated this, they see it as corrupt regimes stifling freedom of speech
and censoring their internet.

Here is the Egyptian graph they educed Egyptian people how to circumvent:

Also when the Tunisian government tried to censor the internet when they were in the height of their corrupt state annonymous came to their rescue too
and enabled them to connect with SSL keys and by other means. The Tunisian people were ecstatic with admiration for these people that came to help
them overthrow their awful government. That part is at 1:02:00 in this documentary about
them.

I think many people underestimate the group mentality of anon when they are roused. Most days they can live to the stereotype of a bunch of stoner
kids in mommies basement, but as soon as the whole community is up in arms about something specific, the internet is their oyster, and far more
organizations than them alone get involved.

Not in a particularly bad chaotic way, it's easy to paint them as the Joker from Batman, but they are more the vigilante Batman than his nemesis.
Sometimes to transcend cultural law and bias you have to bend the law yourself. They see this as their primary role in countries who ban the internet
at times of disorder.

One thing is for sure, they have helped many populations rise up against dictators and repressive regimes when the internet has tried to be censored,
and they have a very good history showing this is what bets the most active.

And now, Israel has started censoring the internet too (specially military and govenment data)

Anon are NOT happy. This is what caused Mubarack to be overthrown just in days when he shut down the entire countries internet, lets just hope they
don't go that far, else they'll have the Israeli people to worry about just as much as their neighbors.

So, ever had a problem with companies or governments censoring data? Give anon a message somehow, and wait see if they deem it worthy to act on.

Or even want to join the hactivist group that is anonymous? Anonymous is just a word;
anyone can be in or out as they choose. It's when many people with unique skill sets congregate in a movement that they can start wielding power over
even the most powerful companies/dictators.

Its pretty easy if you want to help internet activism. If you want to cover your ass online and use the web like a ghost follow this:
www.facebook.com...

The rest is just basically networking and online word of mouth. I'll keep you up to date with whats going on in anon hopefully, this could get
interesting

Found out over night things got worse, with the Israeli government censoring any critics of their political leader from Israeli access. So anon took
down the official Israeli Gov. Website and others within an hour.

Anonymous Takes Down Israeli Gov. Websites, Leaks Information on 5,000 Officials. The online hactivist group Anonymous claims to have taken down
dozens of Israeli government websites in protest over the recent Israeli air assaults on Gaza. Anonymous said their operation 'OpIsrael' had either
damaged or completely erased the sites of more than 650 private and public institutions, which included the Bank of Jerusalem, reports AFPT

They are putting a LOT of time into this one, there are not usually so many people involved this quickly. They have more information about the
conflict online than most news media do. This below is copied again from their main site:

" #OpIsrael Info Update LAST UPDATE – #OpIsrael Updated information (11/19 – 21:45 UTC/GMT -3) Intro: All information below is inteded for
use by the people of Gaza in the event that their phones or internet services are shut down. #OpIsrael #GazaUnderAttack #Anonymous * Post all
relevant links and information that will be useful to people in Gaza during the Israeli attack/invasion #GazaUnderAttack #GazaUnderAttack| Names and
ages of killed people in the ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza
palestinefrommyeyes.wordpress.com...
tacks-on-gaza/

Thank you for the updates, the useful information, and the great thread.

I think Anonymous is what the general consensus is. People are naturally drawn to helping those that can not help themselves. People in congregation
generally veer towards collaboration because that's what people do. They work together for something positive. It feels good, and it hopefully
results in good. Unfortunately as a disparate group they will never achieve the growth truly necessary for a shift in attitude towards greater
unification and impact. That happened with lulzsec, and we know how that turned out. That is their strength, and their weakness. I don't know how the
two could be separated without neutering the entire movement, or making a unified group vulnerable to espionage again. It seems like TPTB have won for
the most part. Any high level players are taken out, leaving a vocal group without actual power.

I'd love to hear responses. I'm not involved with the group, but enjoy the "Robin Hood" tale they're providing.

I respect "Anonymous" for what they have done (tho not sure how effective it is to hack random Israeli websites since there's tens of millions of
Israeli websites. At most it'll just piss the Israeli people off even more)...

But I foresee they will be the excuse for the passing of endless cyber security bills and internet "kill-switches" by the UN and Obama
administration.

If you know enough about cryptology then you can do pretty much whatever you want. Encrypted virtual machine within firmware hardware within another
encrypted decoy virtual machine OS, Onion, TOR, etc.

Anon would have to do something drastically morally wrong for any governments population to let orders like that pass. Think of the # storm it would
bring up just now.

Several other hacking group also participated in the protest and take down the Israel websites. Yesterday, Teamr00t has defaced multiple Israel
websites.

Israel Secret Intelligence Service hacked:
The hacker group known as WikiBoatBrazil has breached the server belong to Israel Secret Intelligence Service(mossad.gov.il) and leaked account
details. The leak contains login credentials belong to admin and noc.

@DalitBaum pic.twitter.com/vBAQRVdv " View photo 5h anon2world anon2world ‏@anon2world I think #Anonymous has to have broken the Guinness world
record for how many web sites that have been defaced in an operation.

if they are caught by Mossad then they will most likely be "retired" by them. Israels security service has no qualms about assasination. They killed
Gerald Bull the artilliary designer and it looks like they killed arafat with polonium as well. They don't mess around.

Government/Military certainly looks pretty worried, yet still don't get the link yet between their actions and these cyber diversions. They will
eventually.

I found some other videos uploaded by various anon members on youtube. Here are the most popular four:

Greetings World.

For far too long, Anonymous has stood by with the rest of the world and watched in despair the barbaric, brutal and despicable treatment of the
Palestinian people in the so called "Occupied Territories" by the Israel Defense Force. Like so many around the globe, we have felt helpless in the
face of such implacable evil. And today's insane attack and threatened invasion of Gaza was more of the same.

But when the government of Israel publicly threatened to sever all Internet and other telecommunications into and out of Gaza they crossed a line in
the sand. As the former dictator of Egypt Mubarack learned the hard way - we are ANONYMOUS and NO ONE shuts down the Internet on our watch. To the IDF
and government of Israel we issue you this warning only once. Do NOT shut down the Internet into the "Occupied Territories", and cease and desist from
your terror upon the innocent people of Palestine or you will know the full and unbridled wrath of Anonymous. And like all the other evil governments
that have faced our rage, you will NOT survive it unscathed.

To the people of Gaza and the "Occupied Territories", know that Anonymous stands with you in this fight. We will do everything in our power to hinder
the evil forces of the IDF arrayed against you. We will use all our resources to make certain you stay connected to the Internet and remain able to
transmit your experiences to the world. As a start, we have put together the Anonymous Gaza Care Package - http://(link tracking not allowed)/XH87C5 - which contains
instructions in Arabic and English that can aid you in the event the Israel government makes good on it's threat to attempt to sever your Internet
connection. It also contains useful information on evading IDF surveillance, and some basic first aid and other useful information. We will continue
to expand and improve this document in the coming days, and we will transmit it to you by every means at our disposal. We encourage you to download
this package, and to share it with your fellow Palestinians to the best of your ability.

We will be with you. No matter how dark it may seem, no matter how alone and abandoned you may feel - know that tens of thousands of us in Anonymous
are with you and working tirelessly around the clock to bring you every aid and assistance that we can.

We Are Anonymous
We Are Everywhere
We Are Legion
We Do Not Forgive
We Do Not Forget
To the oppressors of the innocent Palestinian people, it is too late to EXPECT US

Nov 16th

"Why we are not terrorists, especially compared to the government we are targeting. Your Zionist bigotry has killed many while you laugh in their
wake. We will not stop until the police state becomes a free state"

Originally posted by Bilky
if they are caught by Mossad then they will most likely be "retired" by them. Israels security service has no qualms about assasination. They killed
Gerald Bull the artilliary designer and it looks like they killed arafat with polonium as well. They don't mess around.

Good luck with that, Mossad. Hundreds of thousands of anons now, with a few diffuse leaders scattered around. And growing each day people agree with
their cause more and more.

Look what happened last time someone tried to track down the leaders! He was destroyed publically and had to resign, plus much more. Pretty funny, as
his information was wrong and had to be stopped anyway.

Heh some of them are hilarious! Especially since each website owner will tend to be a rich company owner that send their sons and neighbors into
battle whilst never fighting for themselves. The only real sites to be attacked so far are propaganda sites, government, mossad, police or deeply
racist and zionist ones.

Anonymous is filled with nitwits and skript kiddies who aren't bright enough to keep their e-mails private.
jesterscourt.mil.nf...

OWNED

Egotistical drone computer employing hacktivist shoot off, responsible for hacking wikileaks and only performing things that are "Patriotic to
America". Never been very impressed with their abilities either, lots of hype but no cigar usually. We live in a global community now, not one built
solely out of borders, patriotism and money.

Anonymous is filled with nitwits and skript kiddies who aren't bright enough to keep their e-mails private.
jesterscourt.mil.nf...

OWNED

Egotistical drone computer employing hacktivist shoot off, responsible for hacking wikileaks and only performing things that are "Patriotic to
America". Never been very impressed with their abilities either, lots of hype but no cigar usually. We live in a global community now, not one built
solely out of borders, patriotism and money.

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